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Sunday Inspiration: The Essence of a Person
Never confuse the person, formed in the image of God, with the evil that is in him: because evil is but a chance misfortune, an illness, a devilish attack. But the very essence of the person is the image of God, and this remains in him despite every disfigurement.
—Saint John of Kronstadt
Sunday Inspiration: Humility
Virtue without humility is not virtue.
—Saint Pachomios of Chios
Sunday Inspiration: Reading
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
—Jean Rhys
Sunday Inspiration: Limitless Power
Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.
—Howard Thurman
Sunday Inspiration: An Open Mind
An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.
—Mark Twain
Sunday Inspiration: Thinking
Thinking is difficult. That’s why most people judge.
—Carl Jung
Sunday Inspiration: Six Mistakes
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero
Sunday Inspiration: A New Path
If you are going down a road and don’t like what’s in front of you, and look behind you and you don’t like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path.
—Maya Angelou
Sunday Inspiration: Anger
He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.
—Thomas Aquinas
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